Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA)

Formerly the Library Administration Division (LAD) and then the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA), LLAMA became an ALA division on January 1, 1957. At that time nine ALA groups were transferred to it:

Board on Personnel Administration (created by the Executive Board in 1936, and renamed the Board on Salaries, Staff, and Tenure by Council action ibn 1937, and in 1944 by further Council action the name changed again);

Buildings Committee (created by Council as Library Architecture and Building Planning Committee in 1932);

Equipment Committee (created in 1931 as the Library Equipment and Appliances Committee);

Federal Relations Committee (created by Council in 1923);

Friends of the Libraries Committee (created by Council in 1929);

Insurance for Libraries Committee (authorized by Council in 1929);

Library Legislation Committee (created in 1923; in 1961, on recommendation of LAD and the Committee on Organization, the Legislation Committee was reestablished as a standing committee of ALA), ;

Public Relations Committee (created in 1923);

State Legislative Action Committee (created by Council in 1954); and

Statistics Committee (created by Council in 1936).

In the Spring and Fall of 1957, an additional eighteen committees were transferred to LAD from other ALA divisions. Most of these additional committees involved building construction and maintenance, recruitment of professional librarians, public relations and statistics. By the end of the year, the LAD Board had developed the basis for the structure of sections and responsibilities that it has today. In 1978, the LAD membership voted to change the division's name to the Library Administration and Management Association. In 2008, the division membership again voted the changed the division's name to the Library Leadership and Management Association.

Robert Daugherty and Robert F. Moran prepared a 50-year timeline in 2007. (PDF, 605 KB)